Nanjing, China
2019-2020
48,000 ft2 / 4500 m2
The Slope Museum contemplated the adaptive reuse of the interior of an artificially constructed hill as a contemporary art museum. With a program combining display spaces for large-scale contemporary artworks with a significant retail and dining component, the project essentially proposed an artificial “hill town” constructed within and around an artificial hill. The disparate series of structural grids within the existing structure invited the analysis of a number of potential design directions that considered how best to coherently resolve the program within the existing structure.
designers: Adam Sokol, AIA, principal; Boris Morin-Defoy, principal designer; Breanna Browning; Andi Zhang